The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    G73JH stalling on ASUS boot logo...

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by JCha0s, Apr 9, 2011.

  1. JCha0s

    JCha0s Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    My seagate momentus 7200.4 500GB died reacently so I ordered a WD Scorpio Black 500GB to replace it :) , I have not received it as yet but I thought that I might use an old Hitachi 160GB 5400 for the time being.
    Now a few problems are arising :confused: :
    1. It is stalling on the Asus logo and the only way to by pass it is by pressing an "F#" key, and then it will continue booting!

    2. I got 3 messages so far while in windows that my hard disk is failing :eek: and that I should back up my work ! :mad:

    Any help or suggestions as to the nature and solution of these problems would be greatly appreciated!
     
    JCha0s, Apr 9, 2011
    #1
  2. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    15,730
    Messages:
    7,146
    Likes Received:
    2,343
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Load up a S.M.A.R.T. utility and see if your Hitachi drive has errors.

    If not, maybe your controller or SATA connector is bad?
     
    ALLurGroceries, Apr 9, 2011
    #2
  3. JCha0s

    JCha0s Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    ok thanks i'll give it a try :(

    I scanned the Hitachi drive with HD Tune Pro and the (05) Reallocated Sector Count status is failed, (C4) Reallocated Event Counter & (C5) Current Pending Sector have a warning status. Everything else has an OK status.

    So does this means that this drive is also failing :( ?
    Do u think it is the laptop that is damaging these drives ?
    I do not want to put in the new hard drive when i get it and it also fails like these :confused: !
    Thanks
     
    JCha0s, Apr 9, 2011
    #3
  4. frosty5689

    frosty5689 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    7
    Messages:
    472
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    It shouldn't damage the new HDD even if it is the SATA controller's problem. It sounds like your Hitachi drive might be bad though. Do you have another PC/laptop to test it with?
     
    frosty5689, Apr 9, 2011
    #4
  5. JCha0s

    JCha0s Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Yea i got an old HP dv6000 series laptop that I could test it on!
    Thanks for your help :)
     
    JCha0s, Apr 10, 2011
    #5